Open AccessEstimation of need for palliative care among noncancer patients attending a tertiary care hospital
Author(s) -
Priyanka Sheshnath Prasad,
Sonali Sarkar,
Biswajit Dubashi,
S Adinarayanan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.4103/ijpc.ijpc_90_17
Subject(s) - palliative care , medicine , family medicine , tertiary care , descriptive statistics , exploratory research , nursing , statistics , mathematics , sociology , anthropology
Palliative care services, until recently, were mainly restricted to cancer patients with incurable diseases. Hence, evaluative studies of palliative care are sparse in areas other than oncology.